garage mahal said... Well, they all presumably went to the same colleges and stuff. And got indoctrinated there.

10:15 AM.

And exactly what is your point?

I know plenty of people who claim to love science, yet they want humanity to live in a "simpler way", an by that, they are denying every scientific and technological development achieved. And let's talk about those who deny the very theory of evolution, by promoting and implementing "conservation" programs that sometimes go against the ecosystems' balance. And what about those who deny that Earth has had long periods of climate fluctuations naturally, millions of years before man appeared, against the methodically, scientifically and very well documented paleontological evidence?

What about the ones that deny the Sun's activity fluctuations as a determining factor on Earth's climate?

If scientists said there was a huge meteor headed our way and something drastic was needed to be done about it, would you trust for advice....scientists or Rush Limbaugh. I'd have to go with Limbaugh because it all might be a huge ruse to try to get us to alter our lifestyle and take our freedoms away.

garage mahal said...If scientists said there was a huge meteor headed our way and something drastic was needed to be done about it, would you trust for advice.

Well, if they recommended recycling or the burning of virgins as the best course of action I wouldn't trust them. Just as I don't trust scientists who recommend exactly the same course of action now with global warming as they did back when the fear was global cooling.

The absorption spectrum of CO2 almost completely overlaps with that of water and where it doesn't, the absorption is 100% already. Just as protestants decided that they could read the bible for themselves, the scientifically literate can read and interpret data for ourselves.

Cubano don't mind garage. He's not been the same since the very junior senator from Illinois kicked his girl's ass last year and has her baking cookies in the Foggy Bottom kitchen.

Actually garage those scientists are predicting a big ass asteroid coming within 18K miles in about 20years and I think the plan of action is something along the lines of...SAVE YOURSELVES!!! Thus, it seems Algore will need to ramp up his end of the world rehtoric a bit sooner so as to keep pace.

And it's not global warming, its climate change so please do keep up garage. See they changed the term when scientists have shown that the planet's been cooling the last decade. Oh and don't forget, the Mayans have predicted the apoclaypse in 2012 and those noble savages were right on the money up to the time they ceased to exist.

So don't worry garage, we have a few end of the world events to get through before Manhatten is submerged from melting ice caps.

What's really worrying is that the quake forecast covers the next 50 years. That is a seriously long time for an entire state to remain on its toes. What if Oregon's toes give out from exhaustion and it falls down? That will really shake folks up!

Anita was shuffling cards, 11:37 p.m., when the lantern above her began to swing, crockery fell from cabinets, and water leaped out of a basin. Jack tried to catch the swinging lantern ... "Trees were toppling over. The solid earth was like a glop of jelly,"... In the moonlight, she saw soil moving like ocean waves, and for all her professed terror she was collected enough to notice that the waves were not propagating well and were cracking at their crests.

There are many others, but I'm sure the chronically sarcastic anti-intellectuals are just too cool to care.

I was wondering, after 38 comments, how long it would take until someone pointed this out. But as with a dog chasing its own tail, or a moth courting a bright flame, there was only so much time that could pass and mindless fun that could be had before the eventual pity of strangers would no longer go unnoticed.

Oregon is a pussy state afraid of its earthquake shadow, like they are special for what has not happened to them yet. And their Momma raises wheat and hops. Why Washington could save them all and not stress over it. The only value to Oregon is to hold California and Washington together.

garage said, "If scientists said there was a huge meteor headed our way and something drastic was needed to be done about it"Science deals in what has happened, what is happening and possibly what may happen. If they're saying what "should" be done, they're not scientists - they're policy advocates.

Again, I am not responsible for someone else's aphasia. I can diagram the sentences for you if grammar is as unfamiliar to you as are the rhetorical devices of language. (Or perhaps it just irks you when someone points them out). And I'm not offended and can certainly take a joke. Just wanted to know what you meant.

I'm a Montana native, and as a child almost died in (my first magnitude 7.x earthquake) the 1959 Yellowstone quake.

My parents had rented a small camping trailer and we set off (from Great Falls; I was just shy of 10) to holiday that weekend in Yellowstone Park, intending to spend the first evening at a campground along the Madison River (one of the three forks of the Missouri) a bit west of the park in Montana.

Unfortunately (as we thought at the time, but not for long), our Nash Rambler car turned out to be underpowered for towing even that relatively tiny trailer; as a result the engine overheated, and we were forced to spend the night still a hundred miles away from the park at (the) Three Forks (of the Missouri).

That night (among other significant events), split by the earthquake, half a mountain fell away and 80 million tons of rock came crashing down on the campground at which we'd intended to stay the night, entombing twenty or so campers whose cars hadn't overheated on the way there, as well as damming the river, afterwards forming the body of water known as Quake Lake west of West Yellowstone that one can visit today.

Even 100 miles away at Three Forks the quake was still quite perceptible — though I slept through it — but when it arrived a little before midnight my folks awoke and thought a bear was shaking the trailer!

Afterwards we proceeded into Yellowstone Park and got to see all the broken highways along with geysers that, previously gushing from time to time, now ceased (along with others formerly quiescent that started up), while yet others altered their habits.